Le Ton Beau De Marot
in praise of the music of language
- Paperback
832 pages
- Release Date
22 May 1998
Summary
Lost in an art,the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clement Marot.” Le ton beau de Marot “ literally means “The sweet tone of Marot”, but to a French ear it suggests “Le tombeau de Marot”,that is, “The tomb of Marot”. That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exube…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465086450 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465086454 |
| Author: | Douglas Hofstadter |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Release Date: | 22 May 1998 |
| Weight: | 1.25kg |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 188mm x 41mm |
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About The Author
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Godel, Escher, Bach Metamagical Themas, The Mind’s I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.
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